About Lei

Before joining NICTA, I did my Ph.D in the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Australia.

Professional Experience

1. Senior Software Engineer, National ICT Australia Limited. Jan. 2010 - Present.

I am working as a lead developer for the Badumna Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Network Suite. Badumna supports most of the state-of-the-art features you can name for a P2P software. Badumna has a C# core inside its C++ interface.

2. Ph.D Candidate, The University of Melbourne. Oct. 2005 - Oct. 2009.

The title of my doctoral thesis is Robust Peer-to-Peer based Parallel Computing on the Internet. I did the following projects for it:

• Reliable MPI over Peer-to-Peer networks.
• Bittorrent Observer - Peer failure rate estimation.
• P2P-Tuple - A P2P based BOINC and Google MapReduce style system.

3. Software Engineer, IntelliGuard IT Pty Ltd. June 2005-April 2008.

IntelliGuard is a Melbourne based start-up company dedicated to developing Distributed Denial-of-Service protection products. I built the following software for its DPS product line:

• Network statistics visualization software.
• Online reporting system.

4. Support Engineer, ARM. June 2003-Feb. 2004.

I ported Linux/uClinux to a few ARM based platforms in 2003/2004 when working for ARM. Another interesting part of this job is to provide customer support on ARM C/C++ compiler and debugger.

Skills

1. High throughput and robust system design and performance tuning.
2. Peer-to-Peer system design.
3. Cross platform software design and implementation in C/C++/Java/C#.
4. Managing small software development projects.
5. Technical writing and presentation in English and Chinese.
6. Troubleshooting and software debugging.

In short - I am a result driven technical person.

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